PetaPixel

The series on family caregivers that NPR ran over the Fourth of July weekend sparked an extraordinary response, with tens of thousands of comments and likes on Facebook and NPR.org.

Many people responded to the intimate photographs of families caring for sick or disabled parents, siblings and children.

And not all those responses were positive. One photo in particular, of James Lee carrying his 16-year-old son Justin wearing only a diaper, struck many readers of a story about his care as undignified and disrespectful.